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PBS News Hour - Brooks and Capehart

Brooks and Capehart on Trump's latest legal battle and the growing presidential field

PBS News Hour - Brooks and Capehart

PBS NewsHour

News, Politics

4.51.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

New York Times columnist David Brooks and Washington Post associate editor Jonathan Capehart join Amna Nawaz to discuss the week in politics, including former President Trump's latest legal battle, the growing presidential field and the legacy of Daniel Ellsberg. PBS NewsHour is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

For reaction on the growing presidential field and former President Trump's latest legal

0:05.3

battle, we turn to the analysis of Brooks and K-PART, that is, New York Times columnist

0:10.1

David Brooks and Jonathan K-PART, associate editor for the Washington Post.

0:14.4

Gentlemen, good to see you.

0:16.2

Every time we get together, there's new presidential candidates in this class.

0:19.0

So let's jump in.

0:20.0

David, it strikes me.

0:21.0

There are other moderate Republicans, Chris Sonu, Larry Hogan, who said, I'm not going

0:25.8

to jump into this field.

0:27.1

What's the swore is, is there, are there enough primary voters to propel him forward?

0:33.0

I thought so once upon a time, maybe six months ago, I thought there were.

0:36.8

There seemed to be deflection.

0:38.2

And there was a, there was, you know, the Republican Party up through Mitt Romney, you would

0:42.7

think that would still exist somewhere.

0:45.0

And I think it does to some degree.

0:48.6

And Snewu, I thought, would be a strong candidate.

0:50.4

I thought, Brian Kemp, the governor of Georgia, not quite as moderate, but this guy is a genuine

0:54.1

moderate.

0:55.1

He's sort of gesturing in that interview toward a comprehensive immigration plan, which

1:00.5

he supported in the past.

1:01.5

Right.

1:02.5

Which you don't hear often.

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